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Wagner Landscape Service 




O LOOK upon a piece of ground 
as a sculptor looks upon a block 
of marble, with eyes that discern 
the possibilities for self-expression 
in terms of beauty — or as a painter 
_, looks upon his canvas, as the me- 
dium through which he shall give form and color to 
the vision that lurks in his own imagination— and 
by the harmonious mingling of plants and shrubs, 
trees, grasses and vines, the simulation of Nature in 
the blending of verdure-clad landscape, sky and 
water pool, to create loveliness as the background 
for human life— this is the ideal of Wagner Land- 
scape Service. 



The technique of this art is not of particular 
interest to the average home maker— but its results 
touch the very lives of every human being capable 
of appreciating Natural Beauty. We have, there- 
fore, endeavored to put between the covers of this 
booklet some glimpses of Wagner Landscape Art in 
the full blown beauty of realization. The pictures 
on this and following pages are reproduced from 
actual photographs of homes and gardens in which 
Wagner Landscape Art has found expression. From 
a study of these pictures the reader will derive some 
conception of the scope and efficiency of our service 

a service that is as readily available to the owner 

of a fifty-foot town lot as to the master of a vast 
countrv estate. 




Here is a vista of a city street where Wagner Landscape Service has transformed the raw ugliness of the conven- 
tional town lot into living beauty. 

In the lower view the treatment of the terraced lawn, the velvet greensward and the perfectly grouped masses of 
shrubbery, evergreen and deciduous trees produce an almost regal setting for a masterpiece of American architecture. 




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WAGNER Landscape Service implies 
much more than the mere growing 
and merchandising of nursery plants. It 
involves the mastery of the scientific prin- 
ciples of proportion, form and color — the 
application of definite working plans to the 
solution of the apparently simple problems 
of landscape art. It approaches its work 
with due reference to the perspective from 
which its final results must ultimately be 
viewed. It works with the elemental 
earth, with bulbous root, with hardy plant 
and tender annual, with evergreen and 
plumed grass as the potter works with 
clay — as the painter works with pigments. 



AGAIN this service is not confined to 
■*- *• the embellishment of the front lawn 
but extends to every part of the grounds. 
The stable yard, the tennis court, the 
garage, the garden walk, the pergola, all 
come in for their share of attention and 
all are made to serve an aesthetic purpose, 
not secondary to their utilitarian function. 
Unless you surround your house with 
a landscape well planned and properly 
planted you lose much of the permanent 
satisfaction which the home should give. 



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THK distinguishing characteristic of Wag- 
ner Landscape Service is its perfect adap- 
tation to the particular requirements of every 
individual home or garden. The conventional 
town lot is relieved of its severity by the artistic 
grouping of trees and shrubbery. Unsightly 
vistas are screened behind the vari-colored 
foliage of protective evergreen and dense-grow- 
ing trees. 

The suburban mansion standing in the midst 
of generous lawn offers splendid opportunities 
for artistic landscape treatment even as it pre- 
sents distinct out-of-door problems. It is an 
important part of the Wagner Service to ana- 
lyze these problems correctly and to adapt the 
scheme of plans and planting to the require- 
ments of each individual case. 

There is no error more flagrant than the 
common error of assuming that artistic land- 
scape effects can be secured by indiscriminate 
planting on the ' hit-or-miss" plan. Even the 
most beautiful of plants fail to return the full 
measure of their glory if planted without due 
reference to their nature and their environment. 
Promiscuous grouping of shrubbery, unguided 
by accurate knowledge of the characteristics 
and the habits of each plant, is almost certain 
to result in disappointment. A relatively small 
amount of money wisely invested in the garden 
will bring infinitely more satisfaction than a 
sum spent with prodigal generosity but without 
intelligent guidance. 







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EVEN though you may desire to carry out 
only a small part of your general planting 
scheme each year, it will repay you to work ac- 
cording to our well defined and definitely drawn 
up plans. By so doing, and in no other way, 
you will secure the most harmonious and satis- 
factory results. The limitless selection of 
shrubs, trees, plants and hardy border ever- 
greens and ornamental vines and perennials 
produced at Wagner Park Nurseries make it 
possible for our landscape service department 
to give to each individual client the plants that 
will yield the largest measure of lasting satis- 
faction. 

f Where the style of architecture and the 
natural character of the garden calls for certain 
treatment, Wagner Landscape Art is quick to 
take advantage of its opportunities. 

One reason for the speed with which Wag- 
ner plantings grow to luxuriant proportions is 
the fact that Wagner plants are vigorous and 
sturdy, and they come from Wagner Park 
Nurseries so carefully packed and so intelli- 
gently prepared for shipment that they are sure 
to arrive at their destination with their growing 
power unimpaired. Having been selected with 
particular reference to the soil in which they 
are to be planted, the exposure to which they 
will be subjected and the specific purpose for 
which they are intended, they go into the 
ground with the practical assurance of speedy 
and vigorous growth. 




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THK lover of the song birds 
takes a keen delight in seeing 
these little feathered friends take 
up their abode in the protecting 
branches of Wagner Plantings and 
feed upon the crimson berries of 
Wagner Shrubbery throughout the 
long, lean months. 

The beautiful evergreens, the 
berry-bearing shrubs will put warmth 
and cheer into the grayest winter 
day and make us forget the joys of 
June. 



WAGNER Flans insure for the 
garden a succession of blooming 
splendor and of riotous color from ear- 
liest spring until the snow falls. They 
provide against the bleak desolation of 
the winter by means of evergreens and 
conifers and the intermixture of such 
trees and plants as retain their foliage 
until the tender buds of returning spring 
force them from the stems. 

Whatever may be your particular 
problem, Wagner insight will show you 
the solution; whatever the unique pos- 
sibilities of your grounds, great or 
small, Wagner planting will discover 
them and so develop them as to realize 
for you the fullest measure of enjoy- 
ment. 




WAGNER Landscape Artists understand 
the value of the fountain, the aquatic gardens 
and the swimming pool as features of landscape 
art. Contrary to a rather general idea, large 
grounds are not absolutely necessary to the effect- 
ive use of water as a means of enhancing the 
beauty of the garden. Properly designed, formal 
or informal, according to the general character of 
its environments and properly surrounded with 
well-chosen plants and shrubbery the little pool 
and splashing fountain is equally applicable to 
the smallest grounds as to the large estate. 

The clear blue sky and fleecy clouds mirrored 
in the surface of the pool bring heaven down to 
earth. 





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/^\UR facilities for designing 
and executing landscape 
work for schools, colleges, 
sanitariums, institutions, hos- 
pitals, factories with grounds 
as ornaments, parks, ceme- 
teries, etc., are unsurpassed. 
W e solicit correspondence 
from all persons interested in 
this kind of work or respon- 
sible for its execution. No 
obligation involved. 

THE WAGNER PARK 
NURSERY COMPANY 

SIDNEY, OHIO 







LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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